GCSE ICT Unit 3

• House style
• Audience
• Techniques used
• Size

• Online forms
• Games
• Quizzes
• Blogs
• Questionnaires

• Browser software – used to search for and view websites.  IE, Firefox, Safari etc 

• Web development software – used to create webpages/websites. Dreamweaver, Flash etc 

• Can access a webpage using a URL.

• Can perform key word searches.

• Can follow links.

• Can use a series of menus on websites

• Hyperlinks  

• Hotspots 

• Rollover buttons 

• Back and Forward 

• Bookmarks/Favourites 

• Anchor links 

• Back 
• Forward 
• Refresh 
• Home  
• Stop 

A web server is a computer that contains the information that users of the Internet can access using their web browser.  A webserver needs to be permanently connected to the Internet so that all users are able to access the information.  Web servers for ISP’s contain many websites. 

• The resolution of images used on the site 

• If there any animations or videos  

• The number of webpages 

• Complexity of the design 

• The amount of content on the webpage 

• Makes the information available to a huge number of people 

• If you have Internet access you can get the information 

• Uses multimedia to make the information more interesting

• Some features can take time to load annoying users 
• Not everyone has Internet access 
• Broadband is required to get the full potential of websites